Of course, this was deliberate on his part. He had come this time for Nagato Uzumaki's Rinnegan—or, more precisely, the Rinnegan's ocular power.
He did not need the Rinnegan itself. Obtaining its ocular power would be enough.
After all, he already possessed Ashura's chakra and Indra's chakra. With the Rinnegan's ocular power, he could upgrade the Sharingan Soul Bone at the limit of its potential in his forehead into a Rinnegan—or rather, a Rinne Sharingan.
A battle was inevitable, and he needed one to display his strength so that he could be recruited into the Akatsuki and become one of its members.
Before the Six Paths of Pain could make a move, Yang Hao flung out six steel rings and accelerated them with Magnet Release. He blew apart the heads of the five Paths other than the Deva Path, taking the chance to collect the ocular power within those five Pain bodies.
Though the eyes of the Six Paths of Pain were not true Rinnegan, each still retained a portion of ocular power. That was the foundation for using Rinnegan ocular techniques, and it was precisely Yang Hao's objective this time.
As for the remaining Deva Path, it used Almighty Push to block the incoming steel rings.
The next moment, the Deva Path hurled out three black Yin-Yang Release rods. Yang Hao tested them and found that he could not stop them with the magnetic field of Magnet Release.
They were constructs shaped by Yin-Yang Release and empowered by the Rinnegan, possessing an extremely strong suppressive effect against the Ninja World's existing ninjutsu and bloodline limits.
He had prepared for that. The six steel rings flew back and knocked the three black rods away.
These were no ordinary steel rings. They were special bladed tools he had specially forged to